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Health See other Health Articles Title: Relaxation Techniques To Prolong Your Life Critical Health News Relaxation! Babies,puppies and kitties are experts at it, professional athletes practice it, health care professionals advise it and all of us require daily doses of it for a long, illness-free life. Intelligent eating habits, abundant nutrition, hydration, and regular exercise are all crucial for good health, but when it comes to wellness, keeping it, increasing it and restoring it, nothing is more important than simple rest, repose and relaxation. We all love to loaf, but to experience the full health benefits of relaxation, it’s important to practice a more active form of repose. I call it “deep relaxation”. When done correctly, it helps our minds stop racing and liberates our bodies from tension. A daily, deep relaxation practice requires focus and intention; we have to really want to relax. While it may seem ironic, this kind of active relaxation has been shown to have many profound and lasting benefits, most notably, reducing stress and its symptoms by: - Slowing the heart rate - Lowering blood pressure - Slowing the breathing rate - Reducing the activity of stress hormones - Increasing blood flow to major muscles - Reducing muscle tension and chronic pain - Improving concentration and mood - Lowering fatigue - Reducing anger and frustration - Boosting confidence to handle problems - Reducing stress via deep relaxation is associated with even more significant health benefits, including: Protecting Our Hearts Since serious stress has been shown to heighten our risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks and other heart problems, research is unanimously in favor of relaxation for our heart’s sake. Many studies show that stress is as major a contributor to hypertension and heart attacks, as poor diet and lack of exercise. Minimizing Our Risk Of Catching a Cold Research conducted by Sheldon Cohen, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who has been at the forefront of stress research since the 1990s, revealed that stress lasting more than a month, but less than six months, doubles the risk of catching a cold. Some of his more recent research concluded that stress impedes our bodies’ ability to fight inflammation, a key cause of impaired immune function and illness. Relaxation will make us happy, and healthy. Earth Scent can provide the aroma we need for the next level repose. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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